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Teacher Appreciation Week: Part 2

Here is a great idea for teachers, grand parents, family, friends... I heard about this years ago. Probably from Martha! I was excited to finally get to do it. They came out very cute. Lu drew pictures of each of her teachers, I scanned the images, sized them, added the names and layed them out onto one page. I gave the single page to Kinkos and told them to make two 75 page pads. I was charged a cutting fee and a gluing/binding fee. If you can do most of the work for them you won't be charged additional fees for laying out etc. Each pad came to approx. $5.50.I printed out a band that said thank you and then tied a ribbon around it. Chica and Jo have a great tutorial on how to make your own pads for a fraction of the cost. I found their tutorial a little late. The adhesive you have to order on online. I want to invest in the adhesive about $10 for a quart (which will make a gazillion pads) but the shipping on it is like $7 so I am having trouble rationalizing buying the quart. Chica and Jo sell a 2 oz. container of the padding glue on their site for $7 including shipping. Even though 2 oz. makes a lot of pads it is still only 2 oz for $7 versus $17 for 1 quart. Any of my frugal friends out there let me know what you think the better buy is.

Anyway, they came out so cute and Lu's teachers loved them! I can see making lots of pads for friends and family. What a cute gift for older girls! Tweens are so hard to buy for! Make them their own pads with their artwork on the pad. Tie it off with a bow and a super girly pen!

You were not kidding! I called everywhere today trying to find the padding compound and NOBODY has it! I was wanting to try and make it on my own but it looks like I'm going to have to have someone do the adhesive for me. Thanks for the idea! I'll let you know how it goes!

I bought the padding compound from Chica and Jo - mostly because I do not like to have extra chemicals around that I will one day have to figure out how to dispose of. It works really well. I have made at least 20 pads and used ~20% of the compound. It is also nice to support Chica and Jo - I learn from their blog.

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